Less than a week after blogging my wish for a widget that would allow people to add links to their sites (no matter where they are hosted, they just need a valid feed), which in turn would be automatically entered into FeedWordPress and make the population of an aggregation site simple…it has arrived in the [...]
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FeedWordPress Widget: If you blog it, it is no dream
Published by Reverend November 16th, 2008 in rss, widgets, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 4 CommentsFeedWordPress: A Widget Wish
Published by Reverend November 12th, 2008 in plugins, widgets, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 14 CommentsThe whole syndication-oriented architecture (feed-frenzied learning) many have been playing with using WordPress Multi-User has been moving along pretty well for us at UMW. With the help of just a couple of plugins we have been able to generate a single feed for tags and/or categories throughout UMW Blogs (using the Sitewide Tags Pages plugin [...]
Tale of the FeedWordPress Tape
Published by Reverend September 2nd, 2008 in UMW Blogs, Uncategorized, rss, widgets, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 13 CommentsImage courtesy of Looking for Fish tacos at ELI 2006, aka CogDog.
Well, I have finally gotten a free minute to get this all down, and get it down I will in hopes that I can drum up some help and support in working through a couple of the issues we’re having with FeedWordPress. So, [...]
WPMu Sitewide Comment Tracking
Published by Reverend August 24th, 2008 in Uncategorized, widgets, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 0 CommentsI have been mentioning DSader a lot lately on this blog, and that’s mainly because I have been deep into WordPress Multi-User mode for a couple of weeks now. And between the upgrade to 2.6 and the general overhaul of plugins, themes, etc., I find I’ve devoted no insignificant amount of time to plugin hunting [...]
New digs for UMW Blogs, or the anatomy of a redesign
Published by Reverend August 21st, 2008 in UMW Blogs, widgets, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 19 CommentsUMW Blogs has got a brand new bag, with no small assistance from Andy “EDU” Rush nation who turned me on to the beautiful theme PrimePress (Andy’s the go to theme guy without question), along with Serena Epstein an Jerry Slezak who provided the gorgeous header images featuring the UMW campus. The redesign took a [...]
A List of Plugins Used on the Bava
Published by Reverend July 23rd, 2008 in UMW Blogs, Uncategorized, WordPress, plugins, widgets, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 4 CommentsI have been meaning to use David Benini’s Plugins List plugin (I love plugins about plugins–the meta-plugin!) which simply allows you to include a list of all the plugins you are using on your site. Simple, yet potentially very useful for others, and a way to give a shout out for all the hardworking folks [...]
Self-Service Feed Aggregation with WPMu
Published by Reverend July 10th, 2008 in WordPress, rss, widgets, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 13 CommentsThis post will detail how to create an aggregator site wherein people can simply add their feeds to a site and have their content automatically re-published. This example is specifically for WordPress and/or WordPress Multi-User. It depends upon three plugins, so download them ahead of time from the links below:
1) Oz Politics’s BDP RSS [...]
WPMu as eduglu?
Published by Reverend March 9th, 2008 in insructional technology, open education, plugins, widgets, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 3 CommentsI find myself experiencing a kind of joyful obsolescence at the moment while reading the recent stream of posts from Andre Malan’s blog. I’m nothing short of blown away, and if you are at all interested in WPMu as an educational publishing platform (that will, indeed, prove the prototype of a “BlackBoard killer” sooner [...]
Proud Spammer of Open University Courses
Published by Reverend February 17th, 2008 in insructional technology, open education, plugins, spam, tags, widgets, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 17 CommentsThere has been a bit of excitement about the possibilities for pushing the uses of RSS towards a mythical eduglu as of late. Brian posted about it here and got some great feedback, soon after D’Arcy Norman and Bill Fitzgerald ramped up their work with Drupal. Then there was David’ Wileys re-publishing of his [...]
WordPress as CMS
Published by Reverend February 12th, 2008 in WordPress, plugins, themes, widgets, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 6 CommentsOk, so in addition to the Moosecamp session “Wordpress Anonymous” on Friday (depending on interest) and the “Don’t Call it a Blog, call it an Educational Publishing Platform” on Saturday, Lloyd Budd recently facebooked me asking if I would “lead” a small group for issues and questions about using WordPress as a CMS (I’m trying [...]
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